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On Tuesday, a senior Philippine official responsible for Taiwan affairs, Amadeo Perez, said that the Philippines was doing everything to protect Filipino workers in Taiwan, who number nearly 90,000, Rappler, a Filipino Web site, reported, saying the falling-out had caused "so much" damage and tension.
The concrete damage in tension has been also found to occur around the impact region at the outer face of the containment [Figs. 12 (b1) and (c1), 13 (c1) and 14 (c1)].
The essential aspects of the masonry material are reproduced with sufficient care, namely the very low tensile strength, damage in tension and crack-crushing in compression.
However, the bond strength was quite good, as evidenced by very little delamination in the fatigue crack growth region, and by a lack of such damage in tension specimens.
In order to reconstruct the time of damage of tension bars, which were destroyed by galloping induced vibrations, the calculation of galloping amplitudes for wind velocities exceeding the onset velocity is necessary.
The numerical model, implemented into the FE code Abaqus, is a sophisticated micro-modelling (heterogeneous) approach, where bricks and mortar are meshed separately by means of 4-noded plane strain elements exhibiting distinct damage in tension and compression, FRP is assumed elastic and an elastic uncoupled cohesive layer is interposed between FRP reinforcement and masonry pillar.
The sonic properties may be a disadvantage in terms of consistent signalling, but could be an advantage for real-time probing of web condition (e.g. damage and tension) via reflection due to changes in impedance.[ 5, 15] Interpreting our measured wavespeeds within the context of Nephila's web geometry, possible frequency ranges for the different wave types in a web can be calculated.
